Delhi High Court today dismissed as "premature" the plea of former Indian cricketers Kirti Azad, Bishan Singh Bedi and others seeking a court-monitored probe by CBI or SIT into the alleged financial irregularities in the Delhi Cricket body.

The Obama administration's $1.7 billion payment to Iran to settle an arcane, decades-old financial dispute is prompting questions among Republican lawmakers trying to piece together the full scope of last weekend's dramatic US-Iranian prisoner swap and the lifting of many American sanctions on Tehran.

A man accused of causing a fire on a bus that killed 17 people and injured 33 in China last week told prosecutors that he was angered by a financial dispute with a construction contractor, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Sunday.

Indrani Mukerjea has admitted that she "hated" her daughter Sheena Bora, and that they were locked in a financial dispute, but has not confessed to killing the 24-year-old, claims the Mumbai police. Ms Mukerjea's first husband, Siddharth Das's family are also set to be questioned by police in Assam's Silchar.

In a two-year-old suit filed by Madhu Kapur against Yes Bank, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked both the sides to settle their dispute amicably by June 2 with regard to the right to nominate directors on the bank's board.

Yogeshwar was India's lone entry to the Golden Grand Prix event as the WFI had sent his name to the organisers. Over two hundred of the world's best wrestlers from 35 countries competed in Olympic wrestling's three styles from November 22-24.

In a gruesome double murder case, 29-year-old Nilesh Kamble from Chandivali was arrested by the Sakinaka police for killing his wife and father-in-law in the midst of a financial dispute, in the wee hours of yesterday.